Wigan is a stiff cotton material[1] sometimes coated with latex rubber.
[2][3] It is typically sold in bias-cut strips and used as an interfacing or interlining in tailoring to stabilize seams and hemlines.
Its name has been derived from Wigan, the name of a former mill town in Greater Manchester (historically Lancashire), England.
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